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There is a piece entitled "Stoneware Bottle chron & use" in the Histarch
archives for 1998 by Michiel Bartels (now city archaeologist for
Deventer) which is useful and probably reproduced in the book *Steden
in* *Scherven.* Several contemporary genever manufactures now use
revivalist stoneware bottles. In the evictions of anarchists from
buildings in Amsterdam a few years back I understand a cellar full of
stoneware bottles was ussd as ammunition agaist the riot police.
paul
Carl Steen wrote:
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>In a message dated 5/3/2006 12:43:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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>I don't have an end-date for
>stoneware, but probably by the end of WWI everyone had converted to glass -
>except for some extruded knock-offs from the 1960s You can always play the
>odds: jugs for the water trade were made by the millions; those for the gin
>trade, by the tens of thousands. If all the marks indicate quick and dirty
>mass production, you greatly increase the odds of having a water jug.
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>Robert C. Leavitt
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>Robert - thanks for an excellent answer. I have one thing to add. These
>bottles are still in use, so there is no end date, and since the tradition is
>continuing I'm not sure its fair to call them "Knock offs." I bought bottles of
>Hoogstratten and St Sebastians beer from Belgium at my local beer store a
>couple of years ago, and I still see them from time to time... The Hoogstratten
>was a tall, .75 liter cork seal bottle and the other was more squat, .5
>liter, with a lightning stopper closure. Both are salt glazed with a brown wash
>exterior. Interior is glazed, but not slipped. And the beer was good too. Carl
>Steen
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